Imago Dei Community Sermons

Erik Knox (who started the church, The Well, here in Portland) is planting a church in Los Angeles named Sojourn Gospel Community. His vision for his church is to be a tool of cultural renewal for the Kingdom of God in Los Angeles. But what is cultural renewal? Why not just focus on saving souls…as most churches seem to do? The problem is this; to those outside of the kingdom of God (non-believers) speaking in terms of merely “saving souls” sounds like some type of take over that they want nothing to do with. It also has the propensity to separate spirituality from real life. There is a more holistic approach, which certainly includes a mission to save souls, but encompasses so much more. God has not called us to live duplicitous, compartmentalized lives. Eternity includes the physical as well as the spiritual. We are to use all that we have (including our physical possessions, jobs, etc) for the glory of God. Why? Because culture is good! We will not leave the material world in eternity. The first thing God